Certain cancer therapies' success depends on presence of immune cell, Stanford study shows in mice

The immune system may play a critical role in ensuring the success of certain types of cancer therapies, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The research showed treatments that disable cancer-promoting genes called oncogenes are much more successful in eradicating tumours in the presence of a signalling molecule secreted by kind of immune cell called a T helper cell...

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